Banksy takes over the post again!

Hello Again!
Welcome back to another Mail Art Monday!

Today I want to share the Envelopes I made for the VLVS Banksy Mail Art swap on the

  Viva Las VegaStamps Groupies Facebook page! 

(I hope some of you joined in!)

To start I created a pair of A2 sized envelopes using my Envelope punch board and some blue watercolor looking scrapbook paper.  

Next I stamped all 3 of my Banksy stamps in black Stazon ink. (stamps listed below)

I masked off my address block, with an business card that I often use as a mask. 

(Hence the ink all already all over it...lol)

I traced around this with a black Micron pen.

Now to enhance the blue color, I used Distress inks in salty ocean and tumbled glass. 

The stencil I used was by Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous (THMS055)

Next, I added a few flicks of picket fence and black soot distress stains. 

After I removed the mask I added a few doodles around the inside of the address lock with my white gel pen and a black Micron. 

I hope you all enjoy these fun envelopes, and I hope you feel inspired to get inky!

Pure Imagination

Hello all :) Nataliya is here :) Today I will show you my new wall art with VLVS!
About imagination, of course :)

In this time I been able to use the 15 stamps, this is my personal record! The moon is 2 stamps: Moon Circle and Art Doll Set-ATC Size.
A boy is part of the Children Playing on Toy Car, and then I given to him a star :) (Row of Stars)

I stamping with black StazOn and different violet ink (all on the one stamp, for ombre effect) and adding shadow with grey Faber-Casrell Pitt Brush.

And my VLVS!
Stars 2 x 2 1/4
Caterpillar 1 x 2 1/2
Moon Circle 1 3/4 x 1 1/2
Art Doll Set-ATC Size
Butterfly 3/4 x 3/4
Butterfly/Spotted Wing/Sm 1 1/4 x 1 1/4
Butterfly Side/Sm 1 1/4 x 1 1/4
Pure Imagination 3/4 x 4
Unicorn 3 x 4
Children Playing on Toy Car 1 3/4 x 4
Row of Stars 1 x 5
Mushroom 1 3/4 x 1 1/2
Small Mushroom 1 1/4 x 1
Tall Daisy Arrangement 1 3/4 x 3
Cow With Spots 3/4 x 3/4

 Have a day of pure imagination!

Keep summer in the bottle

Hello all! Nataliya is here :) And I don't want to say goodbye to summer! So I decided to preserve it and make this card:

I really love fuzzy cutting :)

And how do you this glass bottle with dandelions and bubbles?

Now I'll tell you how I did it :)
First of all, I stamping Bottle 2 x 3 with 2 colors of Memento Luxe:

For next step I cut "stencil" and stamping in bottle Blowing Dandelion and Extra Seed by Susan M. Brown 2 x 3 1/2 and 3/4 x 3/4:

Little bit of drawing with Pigma Micron & Faber Castell Pitt Brush:

And watercolor & Gelly Roll:

To make a "glass" bottle, I used Emboss It from Ranger Ink & Ultra High Embossing from WOW!:

Looks great!

But I decided to add another layer of powder. As a result, bubbles appeared unexpectedly. But I loved it!

Have a summer day!

Dream Vacation

Hello all, Nataliya is here :)
Summer, vacation...Now I am still dreaming about vacation. And so I did a small card-visualization ... What could be better than a lazy afternoon on the lake, surrounded by friends?

And, of course, my fav violet & pearl spray:

I used watercolor, Distress Ink, StazOn, Radiant Neon & violet Pigma Micron:

And Stencil Girl (Swatton Flowers Version 1), VLVS! Design Open Circles 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 & 3 Women in Tubes 4 x 2 1/4 stamps:

Nave a great vacation!

The end is near

Hello all, Nataliya is here :)
When I saw these stamps, I just fell in love! And I immediately knew that these wonderful rats shall dwell in my WALLS notebook. And this is what came of it:

Don't look to the right bottom corner!
:)
I love this notebook for the opportunities that it gives... enough to take stamps and ink!

My VLVS!

Banksy Rat Protester 1 1/4 x 2 1/4
Banksy Helicopter Rat 1 1/4 x 1
Banksy Safe Cracking Rats 1 x 2 1/4
Chevron Banner 1 1/4 x 3
The End is Near 1 1/2 x 1 1/4

Eat Me 3/4 x 1 1/4

Bullet Hole 1 1/4 x 1 1/2

Sm;)e 3/4 x 1 1/2

Have a smiling day ;)

Be an adventurer

Hello all! Nataliya is here)
Today I want to show you my new love - Walls Notebook. It's simply amazing for stamping work & doodling.

And this is my first project, I just adore new Alice VLVS!

Adventure & dreaming...it's all about our life, isn't it?

How I made it? Stamp+Sakura Micron!

My VLVS! for this project:

Caterpillar 1 x 2 1/2

Butterfly Wing Set (2) Each 1 1/2 x 2 1/4

Pulse Rate 1 1/4 x 3

Alice With Caterpillar 2 1/2 x 3 1/4

Mushroom 1 3/4 x 1 1/2

Small Mushroom 1 1/4 x 1

Tall Mushroom 1 1/4 x 2 1/4

Sunflowers 3 1/2 x 2 1/2

Have an adventurous day ;)

Animal Farm Housing

Did you ever wonder about the housing in Animal Farm?  No? Me, neither.

But for some reason, when I saw this strip of farm animal stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps! I thought of Animal Farm, and how their houses might look as designed and lived in by animals.  I know--my brain is a wild and woolly place, lol!

Supplies:

VLVS! Images Used--

Farm Animals 1 1/2" Cube Item CB31 Plate 1055

Sakura of America Pigma Micron pen

1 sheet 180 g Garza Papel engraving paper
StazOn Jet Black Inkpad
Strathmore Vellum Envelope Scrap
Gelli Plate
Acrylic Paint-yellow, pink, white
Golden Light Modeling Paste
Miracle Tape
stylus

A while back I used a gelli plate to print on some Strathmore Vellum Envelopes. I wanted to try a parchment effect with the vellum, so I had printed on them with white acrylic, and splashed a bit of yellow and pink here and there for a very light mottled effect.

Although, there are four images here, they all come on one rubber strip, which I stamped on a scrap of the envelope.  I know from past experience that StazOn Jet Black, blends well with the black ink from a Pigma Micron pen, so that is what I used.

I cut each image out, turned it over, and used a stylus to dry emboss each animal into relief.  This particular vellum isn't the best for a parchment effect.  It doesn't turn white, or hold the relief very well, but it did well enough.  

After embossing, I filled the back of the relief images with light modeling paste so they wouldn't totally flatten out.  I used the light paste so that I wouldn't add a lot of weight to the drawing.

With a .03 tipped, Pigma Micron pen, I traced the outline of each image, where I wanted it to fall on the finished piece, and then started drawing.  I had a rough image in my head, and drew on my tangling experience to add detail.  This might look complex, but actually took only about 1/2 hour to do, and with Zentangle® patterns to rely on for detail, the houses almost drew themselves.  The engraving paper is soft with some tooth, so I could build up the values and gets lots of grayscale shading.

When the drawing was finished, and the modeling paste was dry, I attached the stamped images with Miracle tape.

The scan at the top doesn't show the 3D relief, and I had to take a photograph with lots of shadow to pick it up.  I didn't quite get the parchment look I was shooting for, but I'm am pleased with the result.  I love when that happens!  

  

For more of my work with Viva Las VegaStamps!, Amazing Mold Putty, zentangle-inspired art, and daily links to tangles, tutorials, and giveaways please visit my "Life Imitates Doodles" blog.   ~ Sandra Strait

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One of These Is Not Like the Others

Have you ever played those games where you have to pick out the object that is different than the other objects?

VLVS! Stamps used: 
Sitting Elephant - 19157
Whimsical Elephant - 19219
Whimsical Sheep - 18979

Sakura of America: 

  Gelly Roll Standard  -White,  

  Gelly Roll 1.0 Metallic: - Gold, Silver, Blue, Emerald and Purple

  Galaxy Gelly Roll Stardust Pens - Rose, Sky Blue, Lime Green, Purple, Gold, Red

   Pigma Micron Pen .08

Strathmore Toned Tan Art Journal

StazOn Inkpad - Jet Black

Pencil

This journal page was fun! The toned paper of the Strathmore journal makes everything POP, and gellyrolls are one of my favorite ways to color Zentangle-Inspired Art.

The steps are few:

1. Stamp the elephants and sheep. I put the sheep in the middle...'cause its the 'Not Like the Other' one, if you hadn't guessed, lol!
2. Write out the wording in pencil, to get the placement you want.
3. Outline the words with the Micron pen.
4. Draw strings (lines to create sections on the page).
5. Fill the string sections with tangle patterns.
6. Use the Gellyroll pens to color, color, color!

Some tips with using Gellyrolls:

Draw on some scrap paper to get your pen flowing well if you haven't used it in a while.  You'll see ink forming on the tip.

Make sure you've done most of your Micron Linework before using the Gellyrolls, or else wait until the gellyroll ink is completely dry before using Micron over it.  Otherwise, you risk clogging your Micron.

The slower you draw, the more even coverage you'll get.

The color that beads up on the tip is a mixed blessing.  It means you'll get a lovely flow, and fantastic coverage.  But that bead will dry, and then prevent flow.  So when you stop using the pen, wipe the tip.  If your flow gets thin, wipe the tip.  If you want a thinner line, wipe the tip before drawing it.

If you want to add a second layer of color, let the first layer dry or you'll just move the ink around.

If you want to lighten the intensity of the color, scribble a line or two and smear it with your finger (yep.  You'll get your fingers smudged).  You can also let the color dry and add white gellyroll pen over top.  Different effects, but both lighten.

You can find tangle patterns online.  Some of my favorite sites are Zentangle.com, Tanglepatterns.com and you can search for Tangle Patterns at my Life Imitates Doodles blog.

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For more of my work with Viva Las VegaStamps!, Amazing Mold Putty, zentangle-inspired art, and daily links to tangles, tutorials, and giveaways please visit my "Life Imitates Doodles" blog.   ~ Sandra Strait